The Bloomsbury handbook to toni morrison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reames, Kelly L., editor.

Wagner-Martin, Linda, editor.

Series:

Bloomsbury Handbooks.

Bloomsbury Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Toni,, 1931-2019.

Morrison, Toni,.

Black studies..

Literary studies--Novelists--United States of America--20th century.

Literary studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 418 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions. Essayists include pre-eminent Morrison scholars, as well as scholars who work in cultural criticism, African American letters, American modernism, and women's writing. The book includes work on Morrison as a public intellectual; work which places Morrison's writing within today's currents of contemporary fiction; work which draws together Morrison's "trilogy" of Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise alongside Dos Passos' USA trilogy; work which links Morrison to such Black Atlantic artists as Lubaina Himid and others as well as work which offers a reading of "influence" that goes both directions between Morrison and Faulkner. Another cluster of essays treats seldom-discussed works by Morrison, including an essay on Morrison as writer of children's books and as speaker for children's education. In addition, a "Teaching Morrison" section is designed to help teachers and critics who teach Morrison in undergraduate classes. .

Contents:

Foreword "Toni Morrison: A Friend of My Mind," Deborah E. McDowell -Acknowledgments

Introduction Kelly L. Reames and Linda Wagner-Martin

Part One: Morrison's Novels

1. "The Sight and Sound of Intersectionality in The Bluest Eye". Corinne Bancroft

2. "Re-Visiting the Unspeakable: Can Soaphead Church Be Redeemed?", Trudier Harris

3. "Do You Believe in Magic? #BlackGirlMagic in The Bluest Eye", James A. Crank

4. "'Is? My Baby? Burning?': Segregation, Soldiers, and Civil Rights in Toni Morrison's Sula", Thomas Fahy

5. "Toni Morrison's Female Epistemology: Post-nationalism, Diaspora, and Postcolonial Futures in Tar Baby, Mouth Full of Blood, and Paradise", Justine Baillie

6. "'How Can I Say Things That Are Pictures? Foregrounding in Beloved", Jennifer Larson

7. "Rootlessness: Afro-Pessimism as Foundation in Paradise", Keith Clark

8. "Love: Toni Morrison's African American Gothic", Jameela F. Dallis

9. "'A Home for the Heart': Rootlessness, Richard Wright, and Morrison's Home," Leslie Elaine Frost

10. "The Ancestor, Passing, and Imagination in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child", Janine Bradbury

11. "Arcs of Transcendence: The Religious Imagination of Toni Morrison", Gurleen Grewal

Part Two: Morrison and the Contemporary World

12. "'Unforgetting': Toni Morrison's Beloved and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice", Kristina K. Groover

13. "Blues Lives Matter: Reading Jazz in the Era of George Floyd", Andrew Scheiber

14. "Margaret Garner in History, Opera, and as Inspiration for Beloved", Kristine Yohe

15. "Faulkner after Morrison", David H. Krause

16. "Prospects for the Public Uses of 'Toni Morrison'", Kirk Curnutt

17. "Going to Ground in Home: Morrison's Mid-Century Political Modernism", Thadious M. Davis

18. "'Only white folks got the freedom to hate home': Strategic Empathy and Expanded Intersectionality since Morrison's Home", Marijana Mikic and Derek C. Maus

Part Three: Morrison Teaching, Teaching Morrison

19. "Toni Morrison and the Politics of Literary Generosity", Michael Nowlin

20. "Soldiers, Identity, and Trauma: Teaching Home in a War Literature Course", Jennifer Haytock

21. "Cotton Mather's Witches and Toni Morrison's Paradise", Janie Hinds -22. "'What are you without racism?': Toni Morrison on Perfectionism and White Supremacy", Christopher S. Lewis

23. "Teaching Morrison's Sula in the Post-Racial Moment", Marc Dudley

24. "'Understanding All Too Well What is Meant': Teaching Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif'". Catherine Seltzer

25. "Toni Morrison's Home: One Scene, Four Takes", Trudier Harris -Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350504905

1350504904

9781350239944

1350239941

9781350239951

135023995X

9781350239937

1350239933

OCLC:

1353824322

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9781350239951 doi.